Who is up for coming to some (outdoor) activity weekends over summer? It's windy and rainy outside and it would give us something to look forward to, at least. All we'd have to do for now is think of the kinds of activities we'd like to do. I think the planning bit is actually pretty simple.

Who's with me, bitches?

I like fun! --r

Okay, let's do the grid-lo. Fill in with, in decreasing order of enthusiasm:

Yowl!	(I really want to do this)
Y	(Yes, I would go to this)
~p~	(Perhaps, depends what it is really)
N	(No, I would not come)
No!	(No way, Jose)
NO!	(I will kill you rather than come)

When people add new activities, fill in the blanks produced.

Activity
Cycle trip	Y	Yowl	Y	Y	Y
Kayaking	Y	Y	N	Yowl	Y
Quadbiking	Yowl	N	Y	Y	N
Sea-kayaking	Yowl	N	N	Y	Y
Surfing	Y	N	Y	N	Y
Nice walk in the mountains	Y	Yowl	Yowl	Y	Yowl!
Horseing	N	Y	Y	N	Yowl!
Nice walk along a long (many miles) forest trail	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Nice bicycle ride along a long (many miles) forest trail	Yowl!	Yowl!	N	Y	Yowl!
Climbing Moel Famau (1)	Y	Yowl!	Y	Y	Y
Whitewater rafting	Yowl!	N	Y	Yowl	N
Some kind of outdoor volunteer work? (2)	Y	~p~	Y	Y	Yowl!
Caving	Y	N	N	N	~p~
Swimming in a lake somewhere	Yowl!	N	Y	Y	Yowl!
BeachFun: sandcastle competition, kabaddi, barbecue, fire	Y	Yowl	Yowl	Yowl!	Yowl!
Raft race	Yowl!	Y	N	Yowl	Yowl!
Watching bad experimental theatre	No!	NO!	N	Y :P	N
Setting fire to a postman	N	N	N	N	NO!
eating picnics in river boats	Y	"Yowl!"	Y	Y	Y
High forest trail (3)	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
TreeterTotter fun (4)	Y	Yowl!	Y	Y	Y
Off-road motorbike fun / trail riding	Yowl!	NO!	No	Y	N
Living in a forest for a few days, illegally	Y	Yowl!	N	Y	Yowl!
A trip to a water-park (waterslides, etc)	Yowl!	N	Y	Yowl!
GoogleGod is suggesting paintball.	~p~	Y	N
BigRichie? is suggesting going to an American football try-out session.	Y	No!	N
Teepee building fun	Y	Y	Y
Going to a town centre and behaving as though we were a religious cult, spreading the word dressed in robes	~p~

(1) Rick, I'm not sure this is a mountain. It seems to be a country park or something. Google can't decide one way or the other though.

Okay, in that case let's use the name "Moel Famau" for the right mountain, and in the meantime I'll contact a contact in Brazil who can confirm for certain.

Zack confirms it is "Moel Famau". Cool.

Looks lovely: http://www.walkingbritain.co.uk/walks/walks5/w259.shtml - how about going in late spring? It's a hell of a trek for LondonTongs so maybe a few days there would be good.

Those pics do look nice! A few days would be whack. Zack's mum's friend used to have a holiday cabin there that was never locked, however I guess it's all been sold up now. Grr. Perhaps it's still never locked, but it's a long way to go on the offchance! --r

(2) Mnki once said she'd like to help out on the nature reserve near my parent's house. We could go and help for a morning and then have some soup at my parents'. Just remembered that day and put it in the list.

I love soup! It would be good to have a new entry in the soup diary. --r

(3) When we went to Monkeyland or wherever it was, maybe one of the trailer trashing weekends, there was a high forest trail thing, where you could go and walk between high ropes in the forest. It looked like fun but maybe it was too expensive at the time.

(4) Do you mean a visit to Epping Forest or something? Or just a walk in the woods?

I mean having fun in woods, with climbing trees and so forth.

Events

• We (at the moment Graham and Bea) are going kayaking in late July, starting from the WindyBush? campsite (home to SuSheila) and paddling down the river all day (and maybe the day after). A mailing list has been set up for this, email me for details. --b

A tong writes:

Look for Kbo and Embo in the not too distant future